On 6/7/2011 4:31 PM, John R. Dennison wrote:
>
> It does appear that it is indeed a tool-chain issue, but be that as it
> may the problem remains: reading these posts is annoying and the poster
> should attempt to fix it. I am not familiar with the tools in question,
> so I can't possibly advise on how to correct this issue; perhaps other
> list members can assist this person in getting things fixed.
>
> You can not possibly tell me that you like reading text with this type
> of spacing. While it is true that I have the ability of filtering these
> into oblivion I should not have to take such steps.
I don't, but thunderbird displays the original with a reasonable layout
so it is fairly clear that a space was typed in the right places. But,
I have no idea why they aren't in the plain text version - whether the
sender's mailer is just broken or they were munged in some subsequent
character set conversion as mailing lists are prone to do. In any case,
tolerance seems like the right approach.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com